563686 - Invert filter-creation-workflow

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Bengt Lüers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.2.5pre) Gecko/20100501 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Namoroka/3.6.5pre
Build Identifier: 3.0.5pre (mozilla-daily)

To make creation of message filters easier, their creation should start with an set of messages, contained by a folder not with a single message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Be active in multiple projects whose participants communicate via multiple ways (e.g. Mailinglists, doodle-log-mails, direct emails)
2. Try to get Thunderbird to sort mails with different sources and destinations into the projects folder under local-folders
Actual Results:  
Currently there are two ways of creating filters manually:
0. (both cases) create a new folder to move messages to.
1. Tools / Message-Filters…, choose Account, New…, create rule by criteria
2. Find mail which matches one or more of the criteria, right-click on from/to-Adress, choose 'Create Filter From…', create rule by criteria

Expected Results:  
I think, the more intelligent way for Thunderbird to offer the filter functionality would be:
0. Create a new folder to move messages to.
1. Move some messages into that folder.
2. Right-click on that folder, choose 'Create Filter From…'

Another example might be manually marked Junk.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

is this suggesting creating a filter based on multiple messages?
(step 3 of expected results)

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Removing myslef on all the bugs I'm cced on. Please NI me if you need something on MailNews Core bugs from me.